TLDR: In 9 days, I will officially be un-employed. While I'm actively talking to companies and looking for my next role I'd love to connect and talk to you! Here is my latest resume and an overview pdf that is sometimes helpful. Let's talk!
As I mentioned on LinkedIn, my role at Schwab was eliminated in March in an org-restructure. It happens. In the time since, I’ve had several promising conversations with friends, past colleagues and various companies. I honestly am not sure what God has for me next, so I’m actively and aggressively doing my due-diligence to see what might be next.
I’m posting this because I would really like to join your team. Take a look at my LinkedIn recommendations, you’ll see that people absolutely love working with me. I am a joy to be around and I bring the skills you need to level up your engineering team.
Here is a quick snapshot:
- Industry veteran – I have a proven history working across a wide spectrum of verticals, technologies, roles and companies. At first glance, it might seem like I’m geared for a Microsoft shop. And yes, that is where my deepest technical expertise exists, look deeper and you’ll see that I have a proven record leading agile transformations, user experience product-design teams, CI/CD initiatives and plenty of work that revolves far from .NET or other Microsoft specific technologies. I am a Swiss-army knife of technical leadership.
- Hands-on. I’m a doer. Delivery is one of my core values. I lead without micro-managing. I excell and software coaching and solving hard challenges. I also believe strongly in leading by doing. Teaching by showing.
- Software & Process Craftsmanship – I believe that the way to go fast, is to go well. That engineering discipline is what allows teams to deliver quickly with quality. I also practice pragmatism and not trying to fix what isn’t broken. The goal of a business … is the goal. The goal is not necessarily to have the most perfect software and process ever. Shipping is a core value. Shipping quickly with quality is what why I practice craftsmanship.
- Comfortable working and leading remotely. I actually like being in an office. That being said I spent 3 years successfully working and leading a team in Detroit (Rocket Mortgage / Quicken Loans) from here in Texas. I’ve also lead global teams that spanned North America, Ireland and India.
- Guest lecturer, DBU. I’m a regular guest lecture at Dallas Baptist University’s dual master’s MSIS program. In the past I helped develop the web programming course at Mt. San Jacinto College in southern California. My lectures have typically focused on real world lessons on using Scrum to build software.
- X – No Bachelor’s Degree. I have 2 associate’s degrees (double major: one associates of science degree focused on digital design / multimedia and one associate of arts degree focused on humanities ). In my entire career, my experience has compensated for not having a formal under-grad degree. Most of my peers, in most of my roles tend to have Masters or PhD’s. Recently I learned that a global company (after reaching out to me for multiple roles) with a large campus/presence here in the DFW area has a hard rule requiring a bachelor’s degree. Bummer.
What am I looking for:
- Sr. Director / VP of Software Engineering. While I’m comfortable in an individual contributor or people leader role, most of what I’ve been exploring are positions where I can have a bit larger impact – helping to lead and train up a larger group of people. Depending on the size of the company, the “title” might look very different. I’m honestly less concerned with the title – and more focused on the role and impact that I’ll be having.
- Medium to Large Companies. Most of my career has been in some of the largest companies in the world (Microsoft, Sabre, Charles Schwab, etc). I’m very comfortable with smaller start-up companies, but typicaly I prefer the health insurance of other bennefits at larger companies. I still have 4 kids, and so the quality of the health insurance is still really important to me.
- OK with Start Ups. While I’ve mostly worked for fortune 100 companies, when I left Microsoft, I was employee #7 at Improving Enterprises, and was 1 of about 40 people working at Linux Academy. To join a start up, I’m typically looking for other benenfits to offset the work.. think equity, close to home or critical mission/purpose.
- Making an Impact. The farther in my career I get, the more important this tends to be. I like to make a positive impact. I like when the company I work for is making a positive impact. When my role is impacting others – and I deally both.
More details and context?
Check out the last time I was on the market (about 8 years ago). Let’s connect!
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